Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Dominque Roberts, TechRound Fisheries & Aquaculture
Coral reefs play a vital role in sustaining ocean life, supporting fishing industries, and generating billions of pounds in revenue each year.
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William Austin, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Human activities, such as deepsea mining and bottom-trawling fishing practices, pose a threat to the ocean floor.
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Science Based Targets Network Fisheries & Aquaculture
Over the next few months, this new initiative will be piloting draft guidance for the first science-based targets covering seafood value chains.
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Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Eco Watch Fisheries & Aquaculture
The announcement was made at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece and is the largest pledge by the EU since the conference began a decade ago
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ORRAA Fisheries & Aquaculture
We need to rebuild ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity if we are to ensure the wellbeing of the billions of people who live along the coast.
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Giada Ferraglioni, Carbon Pulse Fisheries & Aquaculture
Access to free, reliable, and real-time data is critical to ensuring effective marine conservation, so the Bloomberg Ocean Initiative has launched a new tool to help with just that.
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Alison Gillespie, NOAA Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Argo array is made up of a fleet of robotic instruments that measure temperature and salinity in the global ocean
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Mark John Costello, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Marine protected areas provide benefits beyond fisheries, creating jobs and boosting local economies.
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Catalina Lopez, Economist Fisheries & Aquaculture
It is essential to recognise that aquatic animal welfare extends beyond ethical considerations.
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes Fisheries & Aquaculture
Caribbean ingenuity is helping reduce carbon emissions by 8 million metric tons by harvesting sargassum seaweed and turning it into fertilizer and paper pulp.
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Danielle Rossingh, Impact Investor Fisheries & Aquaculture
Lissy Smit, CEO of sustainable aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark talks to Impact Investor about fundraising, the sector’s first unicorn and why it is launching a new Africa fund.
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Songlin Wang and Lebin Liu, Impact Economist Fisheries & Aquaculture
Experts have observed the importance of recognizing and incentivizing the contribution of small-scale aquaculture operations in China.
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ABHAY H. PANDE AND J. ANAKHA, Maritime Executive Fisheries & Aquaculture
The primary focus of Blue Biotech is to enhance accessibility of marine resources and how we can benefit from them.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Hatch Blue has announced that is has now raised €75 million for its Blue Revolution Fund.
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Impact Economist Fisheries & Aquaculture
40% of all the startups in the seaweed sector are now led by women.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new tool is in its first iteration and will be used to collect insights into aquaculture supply chains.
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Ocean 14 Capital Fisheries & Aquaculture
Since 2012, mass mortality events (MMEs) affecting farmed salmon have become more frequent and severe
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Marking an important step towards the mass cultivation of seaweeds, Sea6 Energy has launched the world’s largest mechanised tropical seaweed farm off the coast of Lombok, Indonesia.
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The Maritime Executive Fisheries & Aquaculture
The EPA has opened solicitations for grant money totaling $3 billion, primarily aimed at reducing emissions and diesel exhaust pollution for cleaner ports.
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Andrea Willige, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
KAUST in Saudi Arabia has released the Global Ocean Gene Catalog 1.0. It contains more than 317 million gene clusters and is the largest open-source catalogue of marine microbes to date.
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